"With the amazing growth of online games like Counter-Strike and Tribes 2 of late, headset mics are becoming more and more commonplace. Any gamer will tell you that good headphones are much better than any speakers for gaming, due to the fact that stereo separation is so much easier to pick up on headphones - in other words, you can tell which direction something is coming from very easily. In addition, with the release of the new voice patch for Half Life (and the imminent patch for CS implementing this) microphones are going to become more and more essential for online gaming - already, clans are finding that they can gain a huge advantage over their opponents by using voice commnication with an application such as Roger Wilco"